#1: How is the pandemic affecting students’ mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health? (at the following levels)

#2: What do students need to feel and be well? (in the following domains)

#3: What do/can teachers do to support the well-being of students? How do/can schools support the well-being of students and teachers? (in the following domains)

For Research Question #1: 

• Ideological: Based on or relating to a system of ideas and ideals, especially concerning economic or political theory and policy.
• Institutional: Of or belonging as part of an institution; established as a convention or norm in an organization or culture
• Interpersonal: Relating to relationships or communication between people.
• Internalized: Attitudes and/ or behavior that become part of one's nature by learning, conditioning, indoctrination or unconscious assimilation.

For Research Question #2

• Innerself: a strong sense of culture, identity, and agency
• Interpersonal: a rootedness and commitment to showing empathy toward family, community, and peers
• Interconnectedness: positive interrelatedness to ancestors, place, land, and the natural world.

For Research Question #3

• Innerself: a strong sense of culture, identity, and agency
• Interpersonal: a rootedness and commitment to showing empathy toward family, community, and peers
• Interconnectedness: positive interrelatedness to ancestors, place, land, and the natural world.

For Research Question #1 

• Mental associations
• Each one teach one
• Prior knowledge
• Parent interviews
• Memoir writing
• Surveys
• Poetry
• Finding song lyrics
• Share circles
• Personal essays
• Conscientization

For Research Question #2 

• Memoir writing
• Surveys
• Poetry
• Finding song lyrics
• Share circles
• Personal essays
• Conscientization

For Research Question #3

• One-on-one interviews
• Affinity groups
• Focused professional development
• Teacher-parent conferences focused on this particular research question